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Saturday, 4 October 2014

Windmill Wonders

Many of you will know that I've been working on my
submission for the last few weeks. There has been a lot to work through. I have
now managed to fight my way out from the piles of scenes that have gone to make
up my submission. There have been many first chapters and re working. It has
been a bit of a jigsaw puzzle, but one I hope will show my work off at its
best. This was a resubmission after some lovely feedback and offer to resubmit
when I was ready. It has taken quite some time for me to get the plots to a
place where I feel they show a greater overview of what I want to do with each
novel. With those I have sent the opening chapters of each. Hopefully they will
still like my writing style, and this time, the plots too. As always, I will
let you know how things go.

I'm still waiting to hear back from the children’s
submission – nothing yet, but I'm hoping to hear back soon.

Now onto the topic task for this week. The picture below was
taken by John Corkett showing the beauty of a Suffolk windmill. Your task this
week is to look closely at the image and write a short story that shows what
happens in or around the windmill. Things to think about. Who lives in the
windmill – is it a working windmill – has it been converted for another
purpose? Who lives in the houses around?

by John Corkett

I hope the image inspires you to write some wonderful convoluted
characters. Remember that conflict in a story helps to add a little spice to a
scene.